He is advancing a new genre of journalism that shows how market forces and economic reasoning shape the evolution of sports.
I knew about sports psychology and mindfulness training, but the idea of looking at neural activity to study how players think and make decisions seemed like a new wave in the evolution of sports science.
(See what I mean about his inclination to insert himself where he doesn't belong? What's that parenthetical doing in there mucking up a clever, pertinent point?) Anyway, the evolution of sports reporting through 140 years or so of American journalism, from the era of Fox's newspaper to the era of Fox television, serves "Over Time" as a subtle spine.
Gregg Winik, the chief executive of CineSport, an online highlights provider for local media Web sites, and a former executive at NBA Entertainment, said that the mixture of video and social network had created a "big and bold step" in the evolution of sports video archives.
SeatGeek aims to predict pricing evolution of sports and event tickets sold on the secondary market, much like Farecast (now Bing Travel) forecasts the price of airline tickets.
The next snowboarding season, early in her reign as the first women's slopestyle Olympic champion in the 2014 Sochi Games, the 5-foot-3 bundle of clashing emotions observed the rapid evolution of the sport — her sport, one that she helped revolutionize — and she sank into self-doubt.
During his playing career, Martin greatly influenced the evolution of the sport of curling into a competitive sport.
Twenty years after Michael Jordan won his second title — at 29, the dwindling fraternity of James detractors should note — the evolution of the sport is reflected in the foreign stars who play at the world's highest level and by who watches, and why.
